High-Tech Sector Identified as Top Cyber-Attack Target for 2025, Replacing Finance

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1. 23.03.2026 17:35 1 articles · 3h ago

   High-Tech Sector Designated as Top Cyber-Attack Target in 2025, Marking Shift from Finance

   The high-tech sector accounted for 17% of Mandiant’s 2025 incident response investigations, surpassing financial services (14.6%) as the most targeted industry. The global median dwell time for intrusions increased to 14 days in 2025, with North Korea-linked campaigns exhibiting dwell times of 122 days. Vishing surged to 11% of initial access vectors, while vulnerability exploits remained the leading vector (32%). Ransomware operators shifted objectives to recovery denial, targeting critical infrastructure components.

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• The high-tech sector accounted for 17% of all Mandiant investigations in 2025, surpassing financial services (14.6%) which had been the top target in 2023 and 2024.

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• The global median dwell time for intrusions rose from 11 days in 2024 to 14 days in 2025, driven primarily by North Korea-linked cyber espionage campaigns and IT worker scam incidents, both with median dwell times of 122 days.

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• Mandiant and Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) identified 83 malicious cyber campaigns and eight global cyber events in 2025, affecting organizations across 73 countries.

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• Threat actors increasingly abused native functionalities in on-premises and cloud environments as well as legitimate tools to reduce detection opportunities in 2025 incidents.

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• The ClickFix social engineering technique gained significant traction in 2025, with dozens of threat clusters employing phishing lures such as CAPTCHAs, video conference verifications, driver updates, and enterprise software compliance checks to execute PowerShell or system-level commands.

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• Vulnerability exploits remained the most common initial infection vector (32% of identifiable cases), while voice phishing (vishing) surged to 11%, surpassing email phishing which declined to 6% in 2025.

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• Ransomware operators shifted their primary objective from data theft to deliberate recovery denial, targeting backup infrastructure, identity services, and virtualization management planes in 2025.

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• In 2025, Mandiant began tracking 661 new threat clusters and 714 new malware families, bringing the total tracked to over 5,000 clusters and 6,000 malware families.

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